Crikey with Saints and Catalan both winning today and having to play each other next weekend, we'll be down to 4th come this game!

We desperately need to put in a good all round performance and start to build up our match play.

I hope Danny Brough will be back and at 100% with the quarter final the following week, it's time for our forwards to close up the defence and improve the line speed.

Any news on Griff will he be back, and Fooey too?

Come on Giants.....

Must win fixture v Bulls. We must not go into the QF away at Cas on the back of a loss.

everyone will be back next week fooey, broughy, griff back to nearly full strength ...unless we got any injuries friday ... and if we play half right we'll be too good for the bulls....... we need the ones that have been out to play at least one game before cas... which again we should win if we play half right.....

Bratfud will have noted our recent struggles and will be gunning for us.They have a big pack themselves.We need to get back to what we were doing well early in the season.Fooey returning is a big plus,(as is Griff) Fooeys stepping yards up the middle are just as important as any made by the props,in many ways you could describe him as our 4th prop,if you know where I am coming from on that.

Very very important game this,after wins for Saints and Catalans today.We need to hold onto that 3rd spot going into the play offs,avoid a trip to Wigan in the QPO would be my call.Plus if we finish 4th,then if we got to the club call situation Wigan would no doubt choose us.

I'd rather us do Wigan in the GF

i was going to say bradford are playing us just at the righ time.... but now we have brough, griffin and faiumu back this will hopefully make the differance and we can get back on track... but dont get carried away if we do its only bradford! still way off the top two

Makes the crusaders, wakey and dragons away losses look all the more galling!! Still think there are more twists and turns yet, can still see 2nd for us if we get on a winning streak. St Helens away is a massive must win game.

Diskin is up before the RFL tomorrow with a likely ban as is Rangi Chase he is on a 1-2 match potential suspension bet he gets one so he can play in the cup !!

You will not need to rush Brough back.

If we play like we did against Cas you will win very easily.

its ok brough is fit for this week anyway. only rushing back was for the warrington game but we did the right thing and didnt play him



im not gonna write bulls of yet we havent been playing well ourselves and brough will take a game or two at least to get back in top form so hopefully our forwards will actually show up for this game

Mason won't be showing up, he's hobnobbing in new York. A great pic of Mickey rourke in a giants shirt on his twitter!

He's back now! All the team had 4 days off according to Nathan in the Examiner.

Ref is Childs.

That's torn it. Anything could happen.

It's Child isn't it?

All we need now it Bentham as video ref - the worst 2 IMO

Yeah he's come back, jet lagged, and bet he's seen some partying. Probably shouldn't play!

agree with you, but need him to play!

Be interesting if Mason doesn't play. The reason Griffin is leaving is he had a tattoo done before the Wakey away game and it went 'funny' so he couldn't play. Thewlis had a 'set too' with him, accusing him of being unprofessional, which it was, which ended with Griffin wanting to leave and us allowing him to go if he got better terms which he obviously has at Leeds with a new three year deal and no transfer fee to us even though he's on contract until 2012!

Can't see Mason going as he has a long contract but giving away an England international ain't what a club chasing top honours does especially to one of their rivals who would burn in 'h**l first before do it the other way.

This is the same Leeds who are demanding A$ 150,000 (£100,000) for Buderus if they tear up the last year of his contract! We are letting Griffin go for nowt other than freed up salary cap space.

This means that the following are leaving I suspect, Horne, Hodgson, Griffin, rumour has it that Andy Raleigh has been offered to Hull KR plus some lesser lights.

I will wait to judge what we replace them with Chan I have an open mind about, I have heard Sam Moa for Griffin which I could live with but Murphy and George from Wakey? I would keep Dodgy first.

Any more thoughts about Bradford or beyond ?????

I can't believe any of you lot are even remotely worried about this match!

I'll give you the script now:

Bulls start brightly. May or may not score.
Child gives one of his inexplicable decisions against us, after we have been applying pressure for a few minutes but with scant reward.
Against run of play, you guys go length of the field (through about ten Bulls missed tackles) to score.
Bulls engage standard panic/defensive collapse/gameplan out of the window mode #1 - they have practised that extensively.
Game over.

half an hour later, the half time hooter sounds...

You sure about that? 2 years left will mean either one hell of a pay off or one hell of a signing on fee, plus a contract... could be a good day for him if true!!

I find it hard to believe a grown man would leave a club on the up over an argument over a tattoo! I mean, really? It's a RL club not a creche. I hope that rumour isn't true 'cos it makes all concerned look stupid imo.

it got infected and stopped him playing, coach not a happy bunny

Perhaps griff also a bit miffed about them swapping fergi for Josh?

Perhaps its money.

perhaps we should of kept our best prop

nathan brown and griffin never really seen eye to eye though

think griff leaving as more to do with his contract money been doubled by the rhinos than owt else, even though i hear thewlis does think griff is moody, the figure 150k a year sounds about right.

Same as always,whatever the reason,if they no longer want to be here no point flogging the departed equine.Say we demanded a fee from Leeds and they said no deal,that would just cause more resentment from Griffin towards us.